The January meeting of the Jackson County Historical Association has been postponed due to winter weather. It will now be held on Sunday, February 1st at 2 p.m. at the Scottsboro Depot Museum. This month’s meeting will feature the JCHA’s own Patrick Stewart.
Patrick is a member of the Scottsboro City Council and an active member and director of the JCHA. His love of the Civil War and relic hunting is legendary. Patrick will speak about using his metal detector to search sites that he has identified in mid-nineteenth century maps and letters, patiently examining battlefields and camps by walking the grid in inch-by-inch increments. Many of these finds are from the area around the historic freight depot where our meeting takes place.
Patrick’s metal detection skills have been featured in American Digger, Western and Eastern Treasure, and Jackson magazines, and on Relic Round-Up, American Digger’s podcast. One of his biggest finds featured in these publications was a button cast to commemorate the inauguration of President George Washington discovered on a dig hosted by the South Carolina Dirt Diggers at a site known for Revolutionary War encampments and engagements in Shappells, SC. He last spoke at a JCHA meeting in 2015.
